Militant runners on country lanes
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gazza285 said:
Acuity30 said:
And the Karen threatening damage to private property doesn't? Silly billy
Don’t provoke people by being a t
t then?You aren’t coming across as being very mature in this discussion.
Billy_Whizzzz said:
NRG1976 said:
remedy said:
NRG1976 said:
People who jog into oncoming traffic are annoying morons, they have a major sense of self-entitlement. They could easily jog on on the correct side of the road, but that would mean they would have to take responsibility for observing what was happening around them when they decide to step a bit too far away from the kerb…no, far better to cause chaos for drivers instead.
How have you got a driving license?
I hope this was sarcasm.
Acuity30 said:
Road2Ruin said:
People like you need to be taken off the road. You are a blight on society.
And the Karen threatening damage to private property doesn't? Silly billySometimes it'll bite you in the ass like your sat at traffic lights or your in a local pub beer garden, when that happens you won't say boo to a goose.
DonkeyApple said:
NRG1976 said:
Let me guess, you’re a troll ?
On foot. No pavement. Keep to the right. Ie run towards oncoming traffic. Passing traffic to leave 2m when passing If road width permits. HC for cars seeking to pass pedestrians: https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/using-the-road-ove...
HC for pedestrians when no pavement exists: https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/rules-for-pedestri...
HC for pedestrians when no pavement exists: https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/rules-for-pedestri...
DonkeyApple said:
HC for cars seeking to pass pedestrians: https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/using-the-road-ove...
HC for pedestrians when no pavement exists: https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/rules-for-pedestri...
But he doesn't care what the Highway Code says. So, err, there's that. HC for pedestrians when no pavement exists: https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/rules-for-pedestri...
NRG1976 said:
jasonrobertson86 said:
NRG1976 said:
Do you cycle into oncoming traffic?
No, I don't cycle. Were you born stupid?DonkeyApple said:
Otispunkmeyer said:
Went for a run today out in the countryside. Always running towards flow of traffic except when crossing to keep on the outside of right hand bends. Basically I keep out the way as much as possible and position so I can be seen.
Still didn't stop the in the eTron who saw me, moves right over to the edge of the road and simply stayed there. I had to jump into the hedge.
No other cars about. Straight road. Loads of space. Just not necessary is it. It's a 2.7ton vehicle doing 50mph and he was basically aiming it at me, 75kg and doing about 7mph! I don't understand the thinking. Probably thinks I pay no "road tax" oblivious to the fact that neither does he!!!
At the centre of all of these issues is a mentally ill man. Sometimes that sick person is on foot seeking to create the desperately needed confrontation to deliver their self medication, sometimes they're on a horse, sometimes a bike and sometimes a car. Still didn't stop the
in the eTron who saw me, moves right over to the edge of the road and simply stayed there. I had to jump into the hedge.No other cars about. Straight road. Loads of space. Just not necessary is it. It's a 2.7ton vehicle doing 50mph and he was basically aiming it at me, 75kg and doing about 7mph! I don't understand the thinking. Probably thinks I pay no "road tax" oblivious to the fact that neither does he!!!
The reality is that the mode of transport isn't actually relevant. There are simply a noticeable number of ill men who today are embolden by laws that prevent the cure from being administered and they go out of the house in need of safe confrontation which consciously or sub consciously, they work to create.
The aggressive jogger has been in London for years and I've met one in the Cotswolds to date during lockdown who crossed the lane so as to be able to run directly into us and cough in faces. The cyclist version is more prevalent. The sick blokes are still at work in Regents Park trying to create confrontations with mothers with young children by swerving in to the parked cars when they spot one getting back into their car. But by far the most common, probably as a function of it being the most prevalent means of transport, is the mentally ill bloke in a car who you will watch deliberately buzz a cyclist who doing nothing other than riding perfectly normally.
I went over to Rutland yesterday and it was a comedy of issues on the single lanes as I was ended up one after another behind people who refused to overtake slower traffic but also refused to leave gaps for others to do so and one who just pulled out on anyone who indicated so as to stop them. A succession of these lunatic drivers keeping everyone trapped behind a laden tractor that never exceeded 20, a horse box that was empty but doing 30 and a cycling peleton that was leaving gaps for people. And sure enough, one bloke lost his mind and for no reason deliberately buzzed the cyclists.
There are just a lot of unwell men out there who are seeking to self medicate to the detriment of the safety of everyone else.
Which reminds me, on the return journey I ended up behind an absolute throbber in a Kia crossover who was swerving violently to avoid anything in the road that looked like it might be a pothole. It was mental and you just knew that here was a bloke who had become fixated and in blind rage about potholes and needed so desperately to find them to support his lunacy that he was seeing them where they weren't.
And today, a legion of older nutters will be hypermiling to country pubs to abuse the young staff before a gentle drive home looking for a congestion with an SUV or a female driver.
Davina Macall needs to make a DVD to help these people.
Maybe someone a bit younger to do this dvd?
I am assuming you mean these chaps need a release of some sort and given there probably not getting it at home some sort of self help dvd is the solution?
_Neal_ said:
But he doesn't care what the Highway Code says. So, err, there's that.
I think people do care they just sometimes forget. Many of us last focussed on the HC several decades ago. Never any harm in spending a few moments to refresh memories. But as long as I can recall the pedestrian has been the king of the road, which seems fair on several metrics from being there first to being the most vulnerable. The most common place drivers seem to easily forget they must give way is when a car is waiting at a side junction and forgets that the pedestrian crossing the main road has the right of way. But nearly all pedestrians know that when there isn't a pavement they must proceed facing the oncoming traffic.
Billy_Whizzzz said:
NRG1976 said:
remedy said:
NRG1976 said:
People who jog into oncoming traffic are annoying morons, they have a major sense of self-entitlement. They could easily jog on on the correct side of the road, but that would mean they would have to take responsibility for observing what was happening around them when they decide to step a bit too far away from the kerb…no, far better to cause chaos for drivers instead.
How have you got a driving license?
I hope this was sarcasm.
theplayingmantis said:
Davinia used to be ok and admittedly has her moments in the milf stages occasionally these days when i browse the daily mail in our reception if someone else has the times or telegraph, but sometimes she appears a bit skeletorish. Imo.
Maybe someone a bit younger to do this dvd?
I am assuming you mean these chaps need a release of some sort and given there probably not getting it at home some sort of self help dvd is the solution?
The big problem with someone younger is that apparently they're all snowflakes. Maybe someone a bit younger to do this dvd?
I am assuming you mean these chaps need a release of some sort and given there probably not getting it at home some sort of self help dvd is the solution?
Maybe Ray Winstone could do some large print Penguin books? 'How to stop being a self-centred fanny'. 'It's not them. It's you.' 'You don't hate SUVs, you hate yourself, your fat wife and pugly offspring.'
DonkeyApple said:
The big problem with someone younger is that apparently they're all snowflakes.
Maybe Ray Winstone could do some large print Penguin books? 'How to stop being a self-centred fanny'. 'It's not them. It's you.' 'You don't hate SUVs, you hate yourself, your fat wife and pugly offspring.'
Now don't get me wrong, the opening scene to sexy beast is what I aspire to in both skin olour and paunch size, when i am his age, but I'm not sure the boleyn beowulf (i've come to slay your faaacking monster) is gonna help more than Dav.Maybe Ray Winstone could do some large print Penguin books? 'How to stop being a self-centred fanny'. 'It's not them. It's you.' 'You don't hate SUVs, you hate yourself, your fat wife and pugly offspring.'
Acuity30 said:
Still waiting on that day, cheers Karen
Of course your the big man all locked in your car .My experience of pricks in cars ( although they also ride , horses , bikes , run , walk ) is that when confronted at lights the doors get locked and they sit willing those traffic lights to change faced forwards gripping that steering wheel for dear life.
If they've been a bit mouthy with females very few choose to repeat it when said female is now next to them .
DonkeyApple said:
_Neal_ said:
But he doesn't care what the Highway Code says. So, err, there's that.
I think people do care they just sometimes forget. Many of us last focussed on the HC several decades ago. Never any harm in spending a few moments to refresh memories. But as long as I can recall the pedestrian has been the king of the road, which seems fair on several metrics from being there first to being the most vulnerable. The most common place drivers seem to easily forget they must give way is when a car is waiting at a side junction and forgets that the pedestrian crossing the main road has the right of way. But nearly all pedestrians know that when there isn't a pavement they must proceed facing the oncoming traffic.
_Neal_ said:
I'm sure you're right about most people, but NRG has expressly said he doesn't care what the Highway Code says.
Well, we have to care what it says even if we don't fully agree or think parts may be wrong as it's a document that would tend to be referenced should there be an incident. It would be silly to simply not care. 
Yesterday, on my little drive, a red Aygo that was two cars ahead tried to pass part of a group of cyclists as we headed into a blind left hander. We all had to stop as the car coming the other way had had to execute an emergency stop and the Aygo which had been able to stop before causing a head on then had to reverse. A baffling manoeuvre that could have killed someone just because one driver chose to ignore the Highway Code bit about not overtaking into a blind bend.
egor110 said:
Of course your the big man all locked in your car .
My experience of pricks in cars ( although they also ride , horses , bikes , run , walk ) is that when confronted at lights the doors get locked and they sit willing those traffic lights to change faced forwards gripping that steering wheel for dear life.
If they've been a bit mouthy with females very few choose to repeat it when said female is now next to them .
If you have that much experience with 'pricks in cars', have you ever thought that it might be you who's the problem? Road rage confrontations shouldn't be a regular occurrence for you. Got any helmet cam vids of you showing someone what for? I have a popcorn maker I've not used yet.My experience of pricks in cars ( although they also ride , horses , bikes , run , walk ) is that when confronted at lights the doors get locked and they sit willing those traffic lights to change faced forwards gripping that steering wheel for dear life.
If they've been a bit mouthy with females very few choose to repeat it when said female is now next to them .
Acuity30 said:
egor110 said:
Of course your the big man all locked in your car .
My experience of pricks in cars ( although they also ride , horses , bikes , run , walk ) is that when confronted at lights the doors get locked and they sit willing those traffic lights to change faced forwards gripping that steering wheel for dear life.
If they've been a bit mouthy with females very few choose to repeat it when said female is now next to them .
If you have that much experience with 'pricks in cars', have you ever thought that it might be you who's the problem? Road rage confrontations shouldn't be a regular occurrence for you. Got any helmet cam vids of you showing someone what for? I have a popcorn maker I've not used yet.My experience of pricks in cars ( although they also ride , horses , bikes , run , walk ) is that when confronted at lights the doors get locked and they sit willing those traffic lights to change faced forwards gripping that steering wheel for dear life.
If they've been a bit mouthy with females very few choose to repeat it when said female is now next to them .
Mouthy blokes in cars shouting at women happens all the time so are you saying the women are asking for it by wearing shorts and vests in the summer ?
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